Ookow-Dichlostemma TOW

> Dear All-Ookow, Dichlostemma pulchella
I've never seen a white one, but surely
> this color exists
> somewhere.
During El Niño of 1998, there were slopes in the
Tucson Mountains completely covered in this plant, in
a density I never would have dreamed of for the
desert. White forms were very much in evidence, which
I had also never seen before. While hiking in the
Table Top Mountains near Casa Grande that same season
I saw Calochortus kennedyi foliage that was so long,
luxuriant, and undulating that my initial reaction was
that I was looking at a colony of Manfreda (which, of
course, does not grow in Arizona). :-)
Shawn Pollard
Midland, TX